ELECTORAL VOTE.

Counted on February 10, 1869.

PRESIDENT.

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Ulysses S. Grant,

of Illinois.

VICE-PRESIDENT.

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Schuyler Colfax,
of Indiana.

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214

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* Objections were made to counting the vote of Georgia, on the ground that the vote of the electors was not given on the first Wednesday in December; that at the date of the election of the electors, that state had not

Ulysses S. Grant was elected President and Schuyler Colfax as Vice-President.

During this period Congress was divided politically as follows:

Forty-first Congress.

Senate-11 Democrats, 61 Republicans, 2 vacancies.
House 73 Democrats, 170 Republicans

Forty-second Congress.

Senate 17 Democrats, 57 Republicans
House-104 Democrats, 139 Republicans

Total, 74 243

.Total, 74 "" 243

been admitted to representation as a state in Congress; that the state had not fulfilled, in due form, the requirements of the Reconstruction Acts, so as to entitle her to be represented as a state, and that the election held was not a free, just and fair election. The House of Representatives sustained the objections, but the Senate did not. The president of the Senate announced the vote in a similar form and under similar circumstances as was announced the vote of 1820.

Election of 1872

Democratic National Committee:

Chairman, AUGUSTUS SCHELL, of New York.
Secretary, F. O. PRINCE, of Massachusetts.

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

Baltimore, Md., July 9, 1872.

Chairman pro tem., THOMAS J. RANDOLPH,

The first work of the convention was the acceptance of the platform adopted by the Liberal Republicans at Cincinnati, on May 1, 1872, in the following resolution:

We, the Democratic electors of the United States, in convention assembled, do present the following principles, already adopted at Cincinnati, as essential to just government: [See Liberal Republican Platform of 1872.]

Horace Greeley, of New York, was then nominated on the first ballot as follows:

For Vice-President, B. Gratz Brown, of Missouri, was also nominated on the first ballot, as follows:

Cincinnati, O., May 1, 1872.

Chairman pro tem., STANLEY MATTHEWS,

of Ohio.

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This convention assembled as a mass-meeting, no regular delegates having been chosen. Organization was effected by allowing each state such representation as would equal two delegates or votes for each representative and senator in Congress. Six ballots were taken for a President, with the result that Horace Greeley was nominated. The following is the vote in detail: